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New install copy/paste woes
- From: Mike Brennan <psuadm at pittstate dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:59:43 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: New install copy/paste woes
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Cygwin/X copy/paste woes
Yesterday I downloaded and installed Cywin:
Dell XPS M1710
Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600
uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mike-lap 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01
i686 Cygwin
X is started with cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startwin.bat
copy/paste between local and remote xterm windows doesn't work
copy/paste from remote xterm windows to local Windows apps (via clipboard)
causes the
By "local xterm windows" I mean xterms started on the local (on my laptop)
cygwin system using the local display.
By "remote xterm windows" I mean xterms started by ssh'ing into a remote
system (AIX and Linux) with "ForwardX11 yes" in /etc/ssh_config, and
then starting an xterm session on that remote system. The remote
xterm uses the local display.
Problems:
WORKS:
select/paste between two local xterm windows
select from xterm local xterm and paste into local Windows app
select/copy from local windows app and paste into local xterm
select/paste within a single remote xterm
DOESN'T WORK:
select/paste (in either direction) betwen a local and remote xterm
(nothing happens)
select from remote xterm and paste into local windows app. This
clobbers the remote xterm!!!! What happens: I highlight text
in the remote xterm, click in the windows app, right click,
click "Paste". When I click "Paste" the remote xterm disappears,
both from my display and from the windows task bar!
I've been successfully using the functionality I describe and
for a long time and the problems only began with new hardware & software.
On my old laptop (Thinkpad A31p) and an older version of Cygwin
(CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Dalea 1.5.8(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-16 00:19 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin) all of the "DOESN'T WORK" stuff above worked fine.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks.
-Mike
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